Beaver, Pennsylvania, cracking plant to continue flaring of gas.

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3. East Palestine chemicals

ethane->vinyl chloride->PVC

Methane is the main component of frack gas, mixed with ethane, which makes the monomer vinyl chloride, which makes the plastic polyvinyl chloride. Do they separate pipelines from the wellhead, or just waste the gas they don't want, cost-of-doing-biz-wise.

They probably get a tax deduction for the wasted gas.

from the link:
"Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection issued Shell violation notices in recent months for exceeding its rolling limit on air contaminants that can cause or worsen respiratory illness and lung disease. The company, which put its multi-billion-dollar plastics plant fully online in November 2022, has submitted roughly 30 malfunction reports to the DEP since September. Many of these incidents led to unplanned gas flaring, used as a safety mechanism to prevent pressure buildup and burn off excess hydrocarbons at the plant."

Plastic. Air pollution. GHG. Shell hits the petrochemical trifecta.